endowing

Example Sentences

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I am not sure endowing Sonny with a social conscience, presumably intended to point up the material’s contemporary relevance, is an improvement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

As public funding for higher education has eroded, universities have increasingly turned to wealthy donors to underwrite major projects and supplement budgets by endowing professorships and research centers.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

He wrote magnificently for actors, endowing them with powers of speech that surpass the capacities of most mere mortals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025

Following the surgery, Jane had announced that as a gesture of gratitude, her family would be endowing a chair for the doctor who’d performed her surgery at the university hospital where she worked.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2025

The Higgs boson may or may not actually exist; it was invented simply as a way of endowing particles with mass.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson